Born 1954 · Iceland
Icelandic Literary Prize 2015 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Dog Days”
Einar Már Guðmundsson · 61 when first published
Novel · 341 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A free-ranging documentary novel about the Danish adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen, who briefly seized power in Iceland in 1809, and the 'fire priest' Jón Steingrímsson.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Bars of the Mind”
Einar Már Guðmundsson · 53 when first published
Novel · 362 pages · Love, Autofiction, Crime
AI-generated summary:In 2002 a writer receives a letter from a man held on remand, telling his story; three years later, the prisoner just released and the writer out of alcohol treatment, they meet, and a love story emerges.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2004 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Beatles Manifesto”
Einar Már Guðmundsson · 50 when first published
Novel · 253 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In the 1960s rock music bursts into the lives of Icelandic schoolchildren and turns them upside down; together with love, it awakens the teenagers to a new awareness of themselves and others.
Icelandic Literary Prize 2000 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Dreams on Earth”
Einar Már Guðmundsson · 46 when first published
Novel · 222 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:In Iceland in the first half of the twentieth century, a poor family on Sjómannastígur meets economic crisis and tuberculosis, the "white death", with a stubborn will to live as new times begin to dawn.